{"id":4823,"date":"2008-05-01T01:32:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-30T20:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=2679"},"modified":"2008-05-01T01:32:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-30T20:02:00","slug":"bold-new-face-my-ass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/bold-new-face-my-ass\/","title":{"rendered":"Bold New Face, My Ass"},"content":{"rendered":"

The WTF quote of the day comes from Gulu Ezekiel in Hindustan Times<\/i><\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n

The bold new face of modern India now stands exposed as hollow following the slapping drama starring Harbhajan Singh and S Sreesanth.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Q1.<\/b> What<\/i> bold new face?<\/p>\n

Q2.<\/b> Assuming that there is a “bold new face of modern India” somewhere, why should it be “exposed as hollow” because one joker slapped another on a cricket field? Harbhajan and Sreesanth are a metaphor for all of us or what?<\/p>\n

Indeed, extrapolating grand truths about India from shallow generalizations about cricket is so 2001. Fine, we sighed and took it when Ganguly and Wright’s team was held up as a symbol of how India has changed—but enough already. Both cricket and India are far too complex and nuanced to be captured in such lazy clichés. No?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The WTF quote of the day comes from Gulu Ezekiel in Hindustan Times<\/i><\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n

The bold new face of modern India now stands exposed as hollow following the slapping drama starring Harbhajan Singh and S Sreesanth.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Q1.<\/b> What<\/i> bold new face?<\/p>\n

Q2.<\/b> Assuming that there is a “bold new face of modern India” somewhere, why should it be “exposed as hollow” because one joker slapped another on a cricket field? Harbhajan and Sreesanth are a metaphor for all of us or what?<\/p>\n

Indeed, extrapolating grand truths about India from shallow generalizations about cricket is so 2001. Fine, we sighed and took it when Ganguly and Wright’s team was held up as a symbol of how India has changed—but enough already. Both cricket and India are far too complex and nuanced to be captured in such lazy clichés. 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